“Naturally I simply cannot work for the company,” Lara says in her post, which has been shared more than 6,000 times. “This type of discrimination should not still be happening in this day and age and any establishment still condoning such practices deserve to be shamed and criticised.

“Being a black woman means that to have a long term hairstyle that stays neat is always going to be a problem. Having braids that last for 2-4 months and can be packed neatly and styled to however a workplace requires is the solution to this problem. No workplace has any right to forbid you from this. This is discrimination and I am disgusted that I had to be subject to such behaviour in this 21st century.”

Earlier this year another black woman was told by a “luxury recruitment agency” that she would have to remove her braids or lose out on jobs with brands who prefer a “more natural look.”

Simone Powley told The Voice: “I couldn’t decide what to do; if I took them out then I wasn’t standing up for equal rights and basically saying it’s OK to discriminate against me.”

“No workplace has a right to do this” Woman claims her job offer was retracted because she has braids